Summer ends on November 17th – here's a brief summary of this Summer of Code ️
the global mentorship program that introduces students and aspiring developers to open-source software development... In just a few days, on November 17th, it will come to an end – the twenty-first edition since 2005: the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), the global mentorship program that introduces students and aspiring developers to open-source software development.
Dear friends, hello dear Community on the Linux-Forum,
First of all: hope youre all right and everything goes well ..
just want to share this with you.. - and i hope that this is the right sub-forum... - its non-windows - and i guess that we all have a awesome great benefit of the GSoC...;
This year, many participants from 123 countries took part. see some facts and figures:
Graphic & Source: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
see a little Clip: What is Google Summer of Code?
Stats: 220,000 views | 1,600 likes | 29 Comments
some Facts & Figures
15,240 applications from 130 countries (+130% above the previous record)
23,559 project proposals (+159% compared to 2024)
185 organizations from all areas of the open-source world
see for example Debian at the GSoC 25:
the Wiki-Page of Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2025
the Projects were the devs worked on: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/debian ... done by the participants:
Tua re agitur – it's about us:
The Google Summer of Code is much more than an internship or funding program. Everywhere, in the many projects and mentorships, our shared vision is being further developed: Free Software, openness, and collaboration. Many applications we use daily – GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Blender, FreeCAD, and many more – were improved or enhanced with new features this summer as part of the GSoC.
️What happens here directly impacts our daily work, our tools, and our ideas about open development.
Tua re agitur – it's about all of us.
Some example projects (2025)
GIMP:
Gabriele Barbero – GEGL Filter Browser
Ondřej Míchal – Plug-in Development Browser
SamIsTheFBI – Online Extensions Registry
FreeCAD:
Sayantan Deb – Interadtive 3D-Controls
Chirag Singh – Export to 3D-PDF
Theo VT – Parallel work on several Documents
see more;
all projekts 2025 in a overview https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects
GSoC Statistics : https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/google-summer-of-code-2025-contributor-statistics.html
the Wikipedia-Site : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
..... have a great day all dear friends on the great Forums - long long live open source...
Keep up the great work - this forum rocks
Dear friends, hello dear Community on the Linux-Forum,
First of all: hope youre all right and everything goes well ..
just want to share this with you.. - and i hope that this is the right sub-forum... - its non-windows - and i guess that we all have a awesome great benefit of the GSoC...;
This year, many participants from 123 countries took part. see some facts and figures:
Graphic & Source: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
see a little Clip: What is Google Summer of Code?
Stats: 220,000 views | 1,600 likes | 29 Comments
some Facts & Figures
15,240 applications from 130 countries (+130% above the previous record)
23,559 project proposals (+159% compared to 2024)
185 organizations from all areas of the open-source world
see for example Debian at the GSoC 25:
the Wiki-Page of Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2025
the Projects were the devs worked on: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/debian ... done by the participants:
Tua re agitur – it's about us:
The Google Summer of Code is much more than an internship or funding program. Everywhere, in the many projects and mentorships, our shared vision is being further developed: Free Software, openness, and collaboration. Many applications we use daily – GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Blender, FreeCAD, and many more – were improved or enhanced with new features this summer as part of the GSoC.
Tua re agitur – it's about all of us.
Some example projects (2025)
GIMP:
Gabriele Barbero – GEGL Filter Browser
Ondřej Míchal – Plug-in Development Browser
SamIsTheFBI – Online Extensions Registry
FreeCAD:
Sayantan Deb – Interadtive 3D-Controls
Chirag Singh – Export to 3D-PDF
Theo VT – Parallel work on several Documents
see more;
all projekts 2025 in a overview https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects
GSoC Statistics : https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/google-summer-of-code-2025-contributor-statistics.html
the Wikipedia-Site : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
..... have a great day all dear friends on the great Forums - long long live open source...

